Athlon

AMD Athlon computer processor is introduced in 1999. It was the first seventh generation CPU designed based on K7 micro architecture. Athlon was high-performing processor when it was released. Since then, AMD continued to introduce different versions of Athlon processor which vary in the technology they incorporate and their efficiency.After the release of the first Athlon processor family, in 2000 AMD came again with revised version of Athlon processor – called Thunderbird core processor. The unique feature of this processor is that it integrates 256KB L2 cache directly on the processor die. This integration of cache on the Thunderbird Athlon CPU enable the L2 cache to run at the same speed with the processor which significantly enhanced the computing time.

In fact, Athlon processor is one of AMD’s successful processor which compete Intel’s processors both in design and performance. For example, AMD outranked Intel for a while by introducing the first desktop processor that runs at 1GHz. Besides, built in with AMD64 technology Athlon is fully Windows compatible processor. You can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications at the same time on the same platform.